This book provides a detailed study of around 200 English prefixes and suffixes. Each affix is discussed in detail, with information on its origin, phonological form, stress placement, semantic range, and the roots it can be attached to. It will be a valuable text for those studying English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards
This book provides a detailed study of around 200 English prefixes and suffixes. Each affix is discussed in detail, with information on its origin, phonological form, stress placement, semantic range, and the roots it can be attached to. It will be a valuable text for those studying English language and linguistics from undergraduate level upwards
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and his book Edible Gender will be published by OUP in 2015.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Preliminaries * 2: How to make new words * 3: Criteria affixes, semi affixes, and compounds * 4: What we describe * 5: Un expected, mis judged, dis organized counter revolution: Making negative words * 6: Ultra patriotic, extra special, pre election pseudo promise: Keeping the same word class * 7: Be feather, smart en, em power, beauti fy, moral ize: Making new verbs * 8: Moon like, death ly, angr y, mysteri ous, memor able: Making new adjectives * 9: Eager ness, bidd ing, pay ment, owner ship, satisf action: Making new nouns * 10: Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab fashion: Making new adverbs * 11: Un relent less ly de west ern iz ing non mean ing ful infra structures: Combining affixes * 12: Envoi: the way of words * Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members * Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types * Glossary * References
* 1: Preliminaries * 2: How to make new words * 3: Criteria affixes, semi affixes, and compounds * 4: What we describe * 5: Un expected, mis judged, dis organized counter revolution: Making negative words * 6: Ultra patriotic, extra special, pre election pseudo promise: Keeping the same word class * 7: Be feather, smart en, em power, beauti fy, moral ize: Making new verbs * 8: Moon like, death ly, angr y, mysteri ous, memor able: Making new adjectives * 9: Eager ness, bidd ing, pay ment, owner ship, satisf action: Making new nouns * 10: Carefully, sideways, homewards, crab fashion: Making new adverbs * 11: Un relent less ly de west ern iz ing non mean ing ful infra structures: Combining affixes * 12: Envoi: the way of words * Appendix 1: List of adjective and verb semantic types, with sample members * Appendix 2: Alphabetical directory of adjective and verbs in the list of semantic types * Glossary * References
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